Exactly a century ago this Friday, on the morning of Feb. 24, 1917, the office of U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing received a telegram of warning from the U.S. Ambassador to Britain. In roughly ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — In a secret telegram a century ago, Germany tried to get Mexico to join its side during World War I by offering it territory in the United States. Britain intercepted, deciphered ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Ninety-four years ago today, the American public found out that Zimmermann, ...

As March 1917 got underway, Americans were just learning of a German plot to draw Mexico into World War I against the U.S. For their part, Mexico would get Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. The ...

In “Decoding the Zimmermann Telegram, 100 Years Later” (op-ed, Feb. 24), Arthur Herman contends that before entering the war in 1917 Woodrow Wilson had been scrupulously neutral. That is not even ...

Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of a remarkable success for British intelligence: but one that involved spying on the United States and then conspiring with its senior officials to manipulate ...

Fort Huachuca, Arizona - "…we make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico ...

The infamous Zimmermann Telegram was given to President Woodrow Wilson 100 years ago, on Feb. 24, 1917 Exactly a century ago this Friday, on the morning of Feb. 24, 1917, the office of U.S. Secretary ...